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The first plasma: the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device is now in operation.

A successful start with helium plasma / hydrogen plasma to follow at the beginning of 2016

December 10, 2015

On 10th December 2015 the first helium plasma was produced in the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Greifswald. After more than a year of technical preparations and tests, experimental operation has now commenced according to plan. Wendelstein 7-X, the world’s largest stellarator-type fusion device, will investigate the suitability of this type of device for a power station.

Read article here.

First plasma in Wendelstein 7-X | Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJpSrqitSMQ

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The assembly of the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device from 2005 until 2014 is condensed into three minutes. The device at Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Greifswald/Germany comprises five large and almost identical modules, which were preinstalled and then assembled in a circle in the experimentation hall. Wendelstein 7-X is to show that fusion devices of the stellarators type are suitable for power plants.